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Mitt Romney: President Obama at fault for fundraising focus

Romney suggested Obama was the reason he wasn't holding more public events. | Reuters

Romney said the debates will provide a time for voters to see the two candidates's views.

“I’m not going to try and fool people into thinking he believes things he doesn’t,” Romney said. “He’s trying to fool people into thinking that I think things I don’t. And that ends I think during the debates.”

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Romney dismissed the notion that polls in all the swing states were beginning to trend in Obama’s favor.

“I don’t pay a lot of attention to the day-to-day polls,” Romney said. “They change a great deal. I know in the coming six weeks they’re very unlikely to remain where they are today. I’ll either go up or I’ll go down. It’s unlikely that we’ll just stay the same.”

Romney outlined three ways in which he thinks Obama has misrepresented his views.

First, he pointed to the Democratic talking point that Romney wanted to let the auto industry go bankrupt. Romney penned an editorial in The New York Times that carried the headline, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,” but has argued he thought a court-orchestrated reorganization was better than the government-backed bailout that Obama pursued.

“I think that they’re inaccurate when he says I was in favor of liquidating the automobile industry. Nothing could be further from the truth,” Romney said. “My plan was to rebuild the auto industry and take it through bankruptcy so that could happen, and by the way he doesn’t mention he took them through bankruptcy.”

Romney also countered that Obama’s campaign has been incorrectly describing his view on taxes.

“He says I’m in favor of lowering taxes on wealthy people. No, I’m not,” Romney said. “I’m not going to reduce the taxes on the wealthy at all, in fact I want to lower taxes on middle-income people. He says I want to raise them on middle- income people. That’s completely inaccurate.”

Romney also pointed to Democratic advertisements that he says incorrectly depict his stance on abortion.

“Of course his ads on abortion, he says I’m opposed to abortion even in cases of rape and incest and the life of the mother. That’s wrong,” Romney said.

Romney bemoaned that Obama continues to use those attacks advanced by outside groups like the Tax Policy Center that said the GOP nominee would raise taxes on the middle-class. Romney’s campaign has sought to discredit that report.

“I understand that politics is politics but in the past, when you’ve had an ad which has been roundly pointed out to be wrong you take it out and you correct it and you put something back on,” Romney said. “He keeps running these things even though he knows they’re wrong and saying them in rallies even though he knows they’re wrong.

“I’d far rather be spending my time out in the key swing states campaigning, door-to-door if necessary, but in rallies and various meetings, but fundraising is a part of politics when you’re opponent decides not to live by the federal spending limits,” Romney said without being asked about his campaign schedule."

We have all seen the video of his meeting with Huckabee during which Huckabee asked Romney if he would support the "personhood amendment". Romney's answer was: "Absolutely." The personhood amendment would outlaw all abortion even in the cases of rape, incest and if the life of the mother was threatened. It would criminalize abortion. It would, in fact, even outlaw birth control pills and IUD's as well as In Vitro fertilization. Romney is on video stating he would support it.

Romney also wants to lower the capital gain tax down to zero instead of the 15% that it now is. About the only people in the US who have to worry about capital gain taxes are the wealthy. So, yes, he certainly does want to decrease the tax load for the rich.

He also wants to raise the tax burden of the middle class because he has repeatedly voiced his support of Paul Ryans plan which would take away the tax break for mortage interest rates and the tax break for charitable deductions.

Obama will not be stupid enough to forget all of those things, even if Romney appears to have forgotten his hearty response: "Absolutely". Romney is counting on the people who support him continuing to get all of their political news from FOX news and he is desperately hoping that Obama will forget Mitt's many, many positions on everything from lowering corporate tax rates to removing capital tax rates to supporting the personhood amendment. Romney's campaign is in trouble and the only people who can't see it are the Republicans who wear ear plugs and blinders tuning in only to Hannity and O'Reilly (and Limbaugh, the recovering oxycontinen addict).

How in the world did Romney ever accumulate such wealth? Day after day he says the stupidest things. The saddest part? Wittless was the *most* sane and rational candidate on the Republican Primary Crazy Train. Well...after Huntsman and Pawlenty got thrown off, that is.

So...are these his words, or someone else's? Either way, he is scarily dumb.

Romney is incorrect when he said that the Obama ad that uses the Tax Policy Center stating that Romney's tax plan of cutting taxes on the rich which increase taxes on the middle class is wrong.

Tax Policy Center states that the only way that Romney is going to have to pay for his $5 trillion tax cut on the rich is by getting rid of middle class tax deductions which if this happens makes the middle class pay MORE in taxes in the end.

Romney must be the whiniest, phoniest, sniveling politician I have ever seen. Disgusting. Now he claims he is forced to do fundraisers because Obama opted out of using federal funds for the election? What's the matter, Mittens? Feeling the heat? What happened to the proud claims that Romney is going to crush Obama in fundraising? Now that it is clear that Mittens can't put a dent in Obama's money advantage he whines like a little beotch.

"Stop it. This is hard. You want to try it?" "You people should consider yourselves lucky that Mittens is running for president. WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU?"

All these people do, from his wife on down to his campaign staff, to the GOP members in Congress, to Romney himself, is whine, and then whine some more.

I'm in agreement with you Georgepan. The Romney defeat is already a certainty. He will, most assuredly, lose. The question now is how badly will he be defeated? To quote you: "Landslide." He is the most unlikeable candidate I've seen in my lifetime and for good or for bad, a lot of folks still base their vote on which candidate is the most likeable.

The election was his to lose. Obama has been slowly leading us through the second worst economic disaster in our history and a lot of people are unhappy with him. A whole bunch of people downright hate him. So, Mitt came into this thing with a good chance of winning, but time after time when Mitt had to show us a real person behind the fake tan, he failed. He actually showed us a variety of different men with different positions on just about everything. He has earnestly and with the most serious of faces lied to us over and over and over. Now he's got his wife out there whining on his behalf.

He is the worst candidate in history and should be an awful embarrassment to his party.

No one should be President of this country that has chosen to bet against this country in Cayman, Bermuda and Swiss banks. And then failed to mention our troops while accepting a nomination to potentially be their commander in chief.

And then proposing a mathematically impossible tax cuts combined with increased defense spending that will lower their own taxes in spite of paying less than many working Americans.

Romney economics does not pass arithmetic balance and will be bad for this country and set up back on the horrible path that saw the crash in 2008.

stop being a wuss. Really, Barack Obama is forcing you to spend your time fundraising instead of holding campaign events? Funny because the president manages to fund raise, hold campaign events and ,,,you know.... run the country at the same time.

Of course Oblamehimforitall should do what Mitt says - it will be better for all of us!

Ann has already said that Oblamehimforitall is making this too hard for Mitt - everyone who matters WANTS Mitt - Oblamehimforitall needs to stop making everything so hard for MItt!

Oblamehimforitall is being VERY MEAN when he says that when Mitt said "Let the Auto Industry Go Bankrupt" that Mitt meant he wanted to let the auto industry go bankrupt! That is taking Mitt out of context and clearly personal attack rather than dealing with the issue.

Mitt meant of course that someone should step in and save the auto industry, just not the Government, and certainly not Bain. Maybe the Chinese or the Germans, but NOT THE US GOVERNMENT as that would be SOCIALISM! Maybe the Italians or something.

But just like when Mitt said that "There are 47 percent who are with him, who are dependent on government, who believe that, that they are victims, who believe that government has the responsibility to care for them. Who believe that they are entitled to health care, to food, to housing.." Oblamehimforitall is being MEAN and NASTY to imply that Mitt is saying that 47% are victims who believe they are entitled to health care and food - of course that is not what Mitt MEANT to say.

And then Oblamehimforitall tries to weasel out of his own quotes, like when he claims that he meant that small business owners didn't build the hiways - it was obvious from his statement that "you didn't build that" that Oblamehimforitall was REALLY SAYING he EATS DOGS while praying to Mecca and plays golf while cackling with his Kenyan relatives about how a Kenyan could become PRESIDENT! That is what he does and its clear that is what he meant!

Oblamehimforitall by saying mean things about MItt is making Ann very upset - she has already said clearly that she has given YOU PEOPLE enough - stop being nasty to Mitt, stop repeating bad things he said as if he meant to say them, stop twisting his MARVELOUS words all around and confusing him, and let him be president so he can FIX EVERYTHING and CREATE JOBS!

No matter what Mitt says, he is a NICE MAN and he will do the things you LIKE and he will not do the things you don't LIKE - but only if you let him be president - otherwise you will have Oblamehimforitall and that will be the first step into 1000 YEARS OF DARKNESS!